i ordered a 6-pak of those 64 Ah Fiat 500e cells and will cut the welds out with a milling machine or a dremel tool to free up some separate cells. Then will do some testing of capacity and measure actual dimensions.

Very exciting, kiev! I have a friend with more money and ambition than time for tinkering, so he has not just one, but two totalled Fiat 500e cluttering his driveway. Lemme know if you want to tackle a full pack rebuild! I have a spare i-MiEV battery, but it is perfectly good. I think that Ben sent away his flooded battery case along with the flooded car, the owner of which has not... surfaced on this forum.

electronpusher wrote:Following this thread as I am very interested in upgrading our iMiev with a larger battery. For the time being however, we are considering making a Tesla battery pack range extender.

It will be interesting to see how those Samsung SDI cells go....

Can you tell more about your extender idea? How would that tie in to the i-miev, how would it work?